Soft to hard cover change w/o loosing text

I have generated a book choosing the soft cover version and would now like to change it to har cover. Is that possible without loosing all the text that I added?

Most likely you will not lose any text. I've changed themes many times in testing and have not. However, to be on the safe side first select the book and type Command+D (duplicate) to create a duplicate of the book. Then if you lose some text you can copy and paste between the two.
Happy Holidays

Similar Messages

Very Poor Quality of Soft and Hard Cover Books in UK

I recently had 2 soft cover books printed-both originated from Aperture. Both showed severe crinkling on the cover on all areas of BLACK ink. The covers have also curled outwards badly. After speaking with the Apple Print Services helpdesk I was assured it must have been just a 'one off' problem. The replacement was not quite as bad but was still what I would say was of unacceptable quality. The pages inside are printed on very lightweight paper with a poor finish on all printed areas.
I then tried a hard cover book. This had a crinkled dust jacket caused presumably also by over-saturated ink on the paper.
The system of binding looked amateurish.
I would be interested to know whether my experiences are echoed by users on other continents. These books had a Dutch postmark on the package so I guess they were printed there?
These books may be priced attractively, but personally I would rather have a quality product than something I am embarrassed by - or certainly in a professional arena.

Hi, I have also ordered photobook through Aperture. Received with Dutch postmark. Quality is not good, the pages are very thin, use thicker paper than this for everyday printing, looks saturated, colour reproduction is not good in some photos also have some that are blurry. Have reproduced photos at same size on printer at home and they are totally different, do not know if this was a download issue.
As they come from Holland was wondering if it is through KODAK.
Also Aperture update 2.1.2 says that it will improve printing quality of books ordered through the printing services. Does this mean that a problem has been admitted and all photobooks ordered previously using Aperture 2 will have the oportunity to redownload and reprint? Somehow I think not.

Set up book in hard cover instead of soft cover.

I just finished creating two photo books, one with 100 pages and the other with 90. I proceeded to order when I was asked to choose the color of the cover. It was then I noticed that I was ordering a hard cover book which I don't want. At this point, there was no way to indicate I wanted soft cover. Is there any way I can duplicate my efforts into a soft cover edition? Or, is it as I fear, that I had to choose soft cover BEFORE I began preparing the book?

Judy:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I think you can. Select the soft cover book in the Source pane and type Command-D. That will give you a duplicate copy to try switching from soft to hard cover, same theme. Even though it warns you that text may be lost I've switched themes before without losing text. Worth a try.
Do you Twango?

Hard cover embossed title

I am making a hardback book with an image that covers the whole cover area on the fron of dustjacket. my question is this: is there a way to set the embossed title on the hard cover, if there is no text used on the dustjacket?

Not that I am aware of - but I'd try using a layout that has text and adding the title you want on the hardcover then changing to the full photo layout and see if the hardcover text sticks around
to preview what your book is going to look like see this apple article - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040
LN

When I was ready to place the order for my iPhoto book, I realized that it was for a soft cover book and I wanted hard cover. How can I change this without losing my prepared book?

When I was ready to place the order for my iPhoto book, I realized that it was for a soft cover book and I wanted hard cover. How can I change this without losing my prepared book?

Duplicate your book and try to change the theme in the copy. Chnaging the theme may change the layout of your text fileds. That is why you need the copy to be able to compare the pages before and after.
Ctrl-click the book in the Source list and select "Duplicate".
Click the "Change Theme" button in the upper right corner of the Book pane, make sure, you have the same theme selected and the same size. Click Hardcover.

Can I change from hard cover to soft cover after the book is designed?

Can I change from hard cover to soft cover after the iphoto book is desgned?

Yes, Just go to the View all pages window and click on the Change Theme button. There you will be able to switch size and type of cover. HOWEVER, just to be on the safe side make a copy of the book beforehand by clicking on it and typing Command+D (duplicate). Sometimes some of the text might be lost. It's a possiblity but I've never had it happen.
OT

Hard Cover To Soft Cover Order ?

Hi
Is there a simple way to change my order (before I send it off) from a hard cover choice to a soft cover option ? I thought I had selected soft cover in the first place but I'm only getting a hard cover option when I click to buy book.
Thanks for any help !
Mike

That warning comes up before you tell it what to change to - if you change to a theme with substantially different text layouts you might lose something but just changing from hard cover to soft cover should not - but anything can happen - that is why a current backup is critical to avoid losing computer data including photos - I would update my current backup just before making the change just in case
But you should not lose anything
LN

HT204364 I would like to re-order a photo book; already received a soft cover and would now like to order in hard cover; can't get to new order form; keeps giving me the old order of the soft cover; please help

I would like to re-order a photo book; previously ordered & received a soft cover book; would not like to order same book in hard cover; cannot get to a new
order form to make selection.......when I "Buy Book", I keep getting my old order form and no way of getting to a new order form; please help!

select the book in the source pane on the left - press command-D to duplicate it - with the copy to change theme and pick the same (or new if you want) theme and the hard cover format in the size you want
LN

Hard Cover to Soft Cover

I changed my mind to go from hard cover to soft cover after I was all done. The format changed even though it's the same layout and a lot of material was lost. Can I go back and recover my previous work?

Do you have a backup?
You can try going back to the hard cover and see what happens
What was lost - generally changing only the cover type does not cause problems
LN

How to Convert a Hard Cover Book already created to a soft cover book

We created a hard cover book, not realizing we needed to select hard cover vs. soft book before creating. When we went to buy the book we realized there are no options at the shopping card to make it a soft book. How can we make this a soft book without having to recreate the whole book. (It took 2 days and is 71 pages...that's a lot of "do-over..." Thanks.

just for safety duplicate the book first then select it and go to themes and select the softcover this time - it will warn about possible text loss which usually does not happen but since you have a copy you are fine even if there is an issue
LN

My 7x7 book will only upload as a hard cover and not a soft cover.

I spent this afternoon putting together a simple 68-page 7x7 book in the book module today. My intention was to upload it as a soft cover book. I tried to do that several times this evening, but after LR had rendered the pages and uploaded them I would get a error related to "BookCover" size.
A little research suggested bugs in the system did not like two-page photo spreads, but I was not using any two-page spreads. Still, I chose a couple of different cover layouts and tried to upload each one. Unfortunately, I got the same error.
So I put everything back the way I had intended it to be to begin with and decided to see if it would upload as a hard cover. Lo and behold, it did!
But I don't want this book as a hardcover. It's a book of Instagram shots and I was specifically going for a more informal look.
Is there something obvious I am missing here? I've also been working on a larger book (with two-page photo spreads) and I'm a bit worried that I'm going to get an error when it comes to uploading that as well.
Thanks,
Shannon

So a fault in the Hardware Raid controller could make it not read properly? I am planning on having a good backup set up after this!
As for the screenshot, the original was not set up with the SoftRaid. When I got the computer back I installed that to see if that may pick it up and make it at least readable to save the data on it. The two in question are the highlighted 4TB drives, which befor also read as one drive as it was set up in the OWC enclosure as a hardware raid.

Hard cover Books

I made a 78 photo soft cover "book". Its great!
Now, I want to create a hard cover of the same photos, but, hopefully without loading up each photo again. please advise to a simple new Mac user! Thx.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Select the book and type Command+D to duplicate the book. Open either copy and click on the Theme button. There you will be able to change the cover type. You'll get a message that you might lose text but I've had very good luck in changing themes or styles and not losing any. The other copy can be used to cut and past any text that might be lost.
Also be sure to do a Print to PDF of the book and proof it for all of the text, typos (my biggest problem), etc. before ordering.
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
Note: There's now an Automator backup application for iPhoto 5 that will work with Tiger or Leopard.

Does anyone know how to simply edit the text in the spine of hard cover, 40 page book in the book mo

Does anyone know how to simply edit the text in the spine of hard cover, 40 page book in the book module? I can click into any other text window and edit and change attributes but I am locked out of editing text when it comes to the spine of the book. I spoke to Blurb support and they referred me to Adobe. I spent 45 minutes with support here - no one knew. I am still waiting for a call back with an answer... not holding my breath as it's been a few hours now. HELP!!!

Thanks for your reply John. I have experienced all the fiddly aspects you mentioned - these are attributes and although changing them requires the skill of a surgeon's hand - it's the actual editing of the text I can't seem to access anymore. The box just won't allow me to do anything except change attributes. Does that make sense? And it's only on the spine where I am having this issue. Puzzled! I have even rebooted the program and just now the computer - to no avail.

How to make hard cover paper book from iBooks author digital book

Someone suggested I make a few hard cover books from my iBooks Author published digital book. How would you go about doing this?
What file should I should I use, (PDF, etc)? What printer would do this best (iPhoto publishing, etc)?
Hoping it will be easy to use the format of iBooks Author so that I won't have to make changes.
Many thanks for your help.

You can print directly from iBA or you can generate a PDF from the print menu and use that. Be sure to test layouts, orientation, etc. Of course certain content won't be output to a printer.
There are hundreds of printers to choose from - shop your budget.

Hard cover repairs

Hi, I just recieved my first two books. Let me start by saying we are thrilled with the quality of the books and the shipping time was incredibly short.
One book is perfect... the other, well... print quality is excellent but the pages all fell out of the hard cover (they are joined by two staples, so it's not like they're going anywhere).
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I don't want to send it back to Apple, long story.
Are there any similar problems with the soft cover books?
We love the books and we'll keep making and buying them, but we want to know if we'll keep having to repair the bindings.
P.S. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but there are only 20-22 pages per book...

watchdog4765:
That is not a common occurrence. If the problem just happened contact Apple thru http://www.apple.com/support/iphoto/customerservice/orderbooks/ and explain the situation. Apple is very good at giving refunds for what is obviously a production problem. Then you can re order the book.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Soft to hard cover change w/o loosing text

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for